ROCHESTER, Minn. — After gallons of Clorox and countless hours of elbow grease, the city has begun re-opening park restrooms that had been horribly desecrated and vandalized. All the closed facilities should be usable again by Friday, said Paul Widman. parks director, The vandalism had been worsening for weeks but had become so bad by lasty Friday the decision was made to lock the doors. The usual clean-up crews couldn’t keep up. Needles and other drug paraphernalia were scattered everywhere, human excrement was smeared all over, and driers and plumbing were damaged. The stench of stale urine and vomit was overwhelming, this in parks some of which were designed for picnicking
